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Author
Language
English
Description
Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home, she's built the perfect life. But beneath this facade, Ava's world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn't been used in years, and her toddler's tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point. Enter Winnie Fang, Ava's enigmatic college roommate from...
2) Bloodhound
Author
Series
Beka Cooper volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Having been promoted from "Puppy" to "Dog," Beka, now a full-fledged member of the Provost's Guard, and her former partner head to a neighboring port city to investigate a case of counterfeit coins.
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Art Williams' comfortable middle-class boyhood was shattered when, in short order, his father abandoned the family, his bipolar mother lost her wits, and Williams found himself living in one of Chicago's worst housing projects. He took to crime, starting with petty theft before graduating to robbing drug dealers. Eventually a man nicknamed "DaVinci" taught him the centuries-old art of counterfeiting. After a stint in jail, Williams emerged to discover...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Munster, go home: After Fred inherits an uncle's English estate, the Munster family go to England where Fred uncovers a counterfeiting ring and upholds the family honor by driving his Drag-u-la special in the annual road race.
The Munsters' revenge: A visit 15 years after the original series to the mansion at 43 Mockingbird Lane finds the Munsters involved with a demented scientist who creates look-alikes.
Contains both Black & white and colorized...
Author
Series
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson/ Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When they uncover a conspiracy against America and its fundamental freedoms, the Kidd children, accompanied by their great uncle, crisscross the country in a race to prove that a newly-discovered copy of the Bill of Rights is a forgery.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sammy meets a mysterious man who dies of a heart attack after telling her to get rid of the large amount of money he is carrying, leading her to investigate who the man was and how he came to be carrying so much cash.
Author
Language
English
Description
Trapped by their pasts, is there hope for a future?
When Secret Service operative Andrew Darlington is brought in to support a US Marshal case involving counterfeiters in rural Indiana, he thinks it's simply the next rung on his climb to the top of his career. But liars can only climb so high--and Andrew is keeping a dangerous secret he doesn't ever want to get out. When he clashes with the criminal family that took over the town of...
When Secret Service operative Andrew Darlington is brought in to support a US Marshal case involving counterfeiters in rural Indiana, he thinks it's simply the next rung on his climb to the top of his career. But liars can only climb so high--and Andrew is keeping a dangerous secret he doesn't ever want to get out. When he clashes with the criminal family that took over the town of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Fountain Creek Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Based on the real history of Carnton, an antebellum home that served as a Confederate hospital, Colors of Truth follows the journey of an Irish immigrant arriving in a country where her kind isn't wanted, and of a former Federal soldier returning to the scene of a battle that almost destroyed him"-- Provided by publisher.
Tennessee, 1866. According to the last Catriona O'Toole received from her twin brother, Ryan, he was being dispatched to Franklin,...
10) Contraband
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Chris Farraday long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy, botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs, Chris is forced back into doing what he does best, running contraband, to settle Andy's debt. Chris is a legendary smuggler and quickly assembles a crew with the help of his best friend, Sebastian, to head to Panama and return with millions in counterfeit bills. Things quickly fall apart with only hours to...
11) L'argent
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
"In his ruthlessly clear-eyed final film, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and formal rigor to a new astringency. Transposing a Tolstoy novella to contemporary Paris, L'argent follows a counterfeit bill as it originates in a schoolboy prank, then circulates like a virus among the corrupt and the virtuous alike before landing with a young truck driver, leading him to incarceration and violence"--Container....
Author
Series
Sinful suitors volume 4
Publisher
Pocket Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Forced to marry another man after Niall was exiled, the now widowed Brilliana wants nothing to do with the reckless rogue who she believes abandoned her to a dreary, loveless life. So having to rely on him to save her father is the last thing she wants, much less trusts him with. As their scheme strips away the lies and secrets of their shared past, can she let go of the old hurt and put her pride aside, Or will the pleasures of their renewed passion...
14) El ropavejero
Publisher
On Screen Films
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Español
Description
In this comedy, Cirilo, an old clothes dealer, dreams of saving enough money to buy his own farm. He works to win over the affections of Maria, the cook of a wealthy family. One day, while rummaging through the house where she works, he discovers a cache of counterfeit money. Cirilo decides to get involved in the business of counterfeit currency, and embarks on a comic adventure.
Cirilo, un viego ropavejero, se enamoraba de María, una sirvienta....
15) One came home
Author
Publisher
A Yearling book
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year-old Georgia sets out to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when remains are found wearing the dress she was last seen in, and before the end of the year gains fame as a sharpshooter and foiler of counterfeiters.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A dramatic account of the 1875 attempt to steal the 16th president's body describes how a counterfeiting ring plotted to ransom Lincoln's body to secure the release of their imprisoned ringleader and how a fledgling Secret Service and an undercover agent conducted a daring election-night sting operation.
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